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Messynessy: 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXIII)

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1. The Hidden Pirate Tower in Laguna Beach
In 1926 a senator from Los Angeles, William E. Brown, bought the property and built the tower to provide his family access to the beach. A (now rusted) spiral staircase leads from the cliffs above, down through the tower, and to the beach below. The design of the tower was inspired by castles William saw during his time in Europe.
 
 
 
 

4. U.S. Army men casually seated around a table as one on horseback jumps over the table, 1909
 
 
 
 



5. UPS Trucks have the most interesting photos to share
Found on UPS Dogs, the official Instagram for UPS Dogs.
 
 
 
 


7. Interior of the 1950 Shasta Daylight Southern Pacific Train
 
 
 
 

10. Combined bird cage, aquarium and plant stand circa 1880
 
 
 
 
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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXII)

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2. 160 Years of Ice Skating in New York City Ice skating in New York reveals the history of social spaces in the city that helped shape the foundations of modern life. Found on HyperAllergic

4. That time the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar in 1977 and ran it with undercover reporters to investigate Corruption

10. “Oldriev’s new tricycle”

13. The Cosmic Dope

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Messy Nessy Chic January 28, 2017

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This was just too interesting to save for Halloween. It all started when I stumbled upon a photograph of a something called a “mortsafe“– mort being the French word for death and safe implying there was something in need of protection from theft. Indeed, these graveyard oddities were once intended to deter body snatchers from stealing the remains of the deceased. But who on earth would need to steal dead bodies from their graves? Oh, just doctors and qualified professionals of the 19th century medical community, paving the way for pretty much all the modern medicine we benefit from today.
What a Relief Our Doctors Aren’t Bodysnatchers Anymore

 
 
 
 

Wong Liu Tsong was born on Los Angeles’ Flower Street in 1905 – a rather befitting location for a gal whose Cantonese name meant “frosted yellow willow.” Most U.S. moviegoers, however, would get to know her under a more American moniker: Anna May Wong, the “Dragon Lady” of Hollywood.
By Mary Frances Knapp: Don’t Call Her the Dragon Lady: Hollywood’s First Chinese American Star
 
 
 
 

She began driving secretly at the age of 14 in her father’s ‘borrowed’ Citroën 2CV and her earliest races took place on the gravel roads of the French riviera, trying to carve off the journey time between work and home in a Renault 4. Michèle Mouton became the first woman in rally driving to win a world championship, whilst still only finding her feet in the male-dominated sport, winning a total of four championship rallies for Audi and beating the men at their own game. More than 3 decades later, she is still the last woman to compete in top-level rallying.

Her longtime rival, world champion Walter Röhrl, once said before he raced her in the Rallye Côte d’Ivoire, that he would not accept second place in the championship to Michèle Mouton. “This is not because I doubt her capabilities as a driver, but because she is a woman.” The Opel driver believed that the defeat would have devalued his performances.
She Raced the Boys and Took Their Trophies
 
 
 
 

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Messynessy: 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXI)

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1. A Pink Scottish Castle Craigievar Castle, from this lovely Instagram account, touring the UK in a Morris Minor. 
2. This 1930s LA Home For Sale comes with a key to famous High Tower elevator Accessed by the famous High Tower elevator, the Streamline Moderne-ish residence c…

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXIX

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1. Relocate to the French Alps with this Restaurant Chalet For Sale A family-run restaurant, with its own two-bedroom apartment, is looking for new custodians to take it on as a commercial opportunity – or redevelop it as a private home. The restaurant known as Les Vieilles Luges, is located in…

6. Student Life at the First Medical College for Women
The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) opened in Philadellphia in 1850, but it wasn’t until 1869 that its students were allowed to attend a clinical lecture at Pennsylvania Hospital. That occasion was treated as a sideshow by the male medical students of the University of Pennsylvania.

8. Fried Maple Leaves Are A Tasty Autumn Snack In Japan

13. This Fantastic Unedited Interview with Marlon Brando from 1989

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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXII)

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1. Gustave Eiffel’s Swiss Villa Getaway Villa Claire, named after his daughter, was Gustave Eiffel’s preferred place of rest when he wasn’t building giant iron towers or attempting to engineer the Panama Canal. In Vevey, Switzerland. From a collection at Musée D’Orsay, prints for sal….


5. An “Internet” Radio, first released in 1954
Nobody knows exactly when the word ‘internet’ was first used, or who coined it, but it appears to have been from 1883 onwards, when it was used as an adjective or verb to describe interconnected motions. It was seemingly first used as a noun in 1977, when demonstrations of the early ARPAD and SATNET networks were held by pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. It wasn’t commonly used by the likes of you and I until the late-1990s, nearly a decade after Tim Berners-Lee developed the thing it actually indicates.

This makes this radio one of the very first proper and public uses of the word internet, and one that predates the development of world-changing thing itself!


8. WWI Soldiers entering a novel billet with their packs. Near Riencourt, France, 1918.

12. A Chapel in a Treehouse
The Chêne chapelle “chapel oak” is an oak tree located in Allouville-Bellefosse in Seine-Maritime, France. The oak tree is between 800 and 1,200 years old and its hollow trunk hosts two chapels, which were built there in 1669 and are still used: Notre Dame de la Paix (“Our Lady of Peace”) and the Chambre de l’Ermite (“Hermit’s room”).

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Messy Nessy Chic – Cabinet of Chic Curiosities

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November 11, 2017
House Hunting for the Ultimate Hideout
If you had the choice to plant your flag anywhere you wanted– would you choose to be stay with the pack or venture off on your own? I often wonder about people who live out in the middle of nowhere, isolated from the rest of the world. Did they choose this life? Are they truly…


The Underrated Charm of Ice Fishing
When winter arrives and those icy chills replace the Autumn thrills, most of us tend to curl up beside the fire with a good book, grab a hot chocolate or watch a classic movie. If you live in the northern middle states of the US however, you bundle up in your warmest clothes, pull on your hat, mittens,…


They Just don’t Make Vacations like they Used To
This is just one of those posts that started with a single photograph which gave me such nostalgia for an era I’ve never actually lived through, that I proceeded to compile my own imaginary photo album of the perfect 1950s vacation– all shot in 35mm kodachrome of course. It was this tiny vacation cottage that…

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Messynessy: 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLX)

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1. The French Army’s Wine Stock before the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915 French Expeditionary’s wine stocks for the Gallipoli campaign, an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I. The French however, were prepared for hardship.
 
 
 
 


2. A 19th century Club Dedicated to Eating Unconventional Aquatic Creatures
 
 
 
 


5. Palmer Station, Antarctica
 
 
 
 
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Oh Lord, Won’t you Buy me a Caravan Yacht

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Is that a motor home with a helicopter pad on its top deck? Why yes, yes it is. It also comes with a portable swimming pool, because both are clearly the most vital features of a camping trip. Behold the sixty-five-foot-long 1952 Executive Flagship…Designed by William MacDonald of the….

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Hedonist Hollywood’s Lost Garden of Allah

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Before James Dean moved into the Chateau Marmont and made it a Hollywood landmark and go-to spot for stars to get up to no good, there was the far more notorious, but now long-forgotten Garden of Allah. The hotel’s ambrosial name certainly had no reflection on its reputation as the never-ending hous….

Hedonist Hollywood’s Lost Garden of Allah